Share albums where EVERY SINGLE song is good


It rarely happens to me, but in a pile of records I bought over the summer I

found one with no cover. Shocking Blue’s 2nd album. 'At Home' (I’m your Venus is on it).

Even most Beatles albums have at least one song I could pass on, but not this one. Horrible fidelity, scratched to hell, but damn...

So I’d love to hear of other records that you all could suggest.

 

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I don't post often...almost never but I really like these types of posts-I get to check out a bunch of music I don't know...so thanks for that.  For me, an album that didn't get much airplay but I hope some of you will check it out.  Straight ahead rock/roll with good lyrics, fun start to back.

The Refreshments-Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big & Buzzy

I was going to write another joke reply by listing greatest hits albums of great artists, then I thought I'd just play it straight.

The Who - Who's Next

Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

Boston - Boston

Aja - Steely Dan

Breakfast in America - Supertramp

Abbey Road and Sgt. Pepper - The Beatles

Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

Innervisions - Stevie Wonder

Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin

I think Pet Sounds, Tapestry, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, 2112, Hotel California, Blood on the Tracks, Wish You Were Here are great, great albums, I just don't think every song on these are great. And Rolling Stone Magazine's top 50 in list of the greatest 500 albums of all time is an absolute joke.

Just listening to

Marianne Faithfull - Broken English

Tommy Bolin - Teaser

Billy Cobham - Spectrum

Doesn’t get any better.

 

 

 

Boston debut

Dark Side of the Moon

Van Halen I

AC/DC - Back In Black

The Beach Boys - Endless Summer

Fleetwood Mac - The White Album

Sade - Love Deluxe

Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs

Trapeze - Medusa

Nick Johnston - Remarkably Human (guitar instrumental)

Michael Angelo Batio - No Boundaries (guitar instrumental)

Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force (guitar-focused)

Trees of Eternity - Hour of the Nightingale (doom metal)

Metallica - Master of Puppets (thrash metal)

Metallica - And Justice For All (thrash metal)

Metallica - Ride The Lightning (thrash metal)

Draconian - Sovran (doom metal)

Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath (heavy metal)

Cathedral - The Ethereal Mirror (doom metal)

Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache (metalcore)

The Destro - Harmony of Discord (groove metal)

Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power (groove metal)

Warfect - Exoneration Denied (thrash metal)

Aeon - Aeons Black (death metal)

Feasting On Darkness - The Black Cloud (instrumental death metal)

Xanthochroid - Of Erthe and Axen Act I (folk, symphonic, black metal)

I’m following Teo_audio post - "Anything from K-Tel.....or Ronco".
You’re never too old for those albums! 🤣

The newer live Steely Dan, "Northeast Corridor".  A fresh take on old favorites, rare for Steely Dan.

  • Who's Next,  Quadrophenia - The Who
  • Rust Never Sleeps, Comes a Time, Harvest, After the Gold Rush - Neil Young
  • Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
  • 2112, Hemispheres, A Farewell to Kings, Moving Pictures - Rush
  • The River - Bruce Springsteen
  • In My Tribe - 10,000 Maniacs
  • Tapestry - Carol King
  • Year of the Cat - Al Stewart
  • Boston - Boston
  • From Genesis to Revelation - Genesis
  • Hotel California - Eagles
  • Dark Side of the Moon,  Wish You Were Here, The Wall - Pink Floyd

Janis Joplin - Cosmic Blues

Simon & Garfunkel - PSR&T

Steely Dan - The Royal Scam

 

Ryan Adams - Prisoner

Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees

Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour

The Zombies - Oracle and Odyssey 

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

 

 

Allman Bros. - S/T and Idlewild South

Graham Nash - Songs For Beginners

Deep Purple - Machine Head

Led Zeppelin - I and II

Supertramp - Quietest Moments

 

I'm an old 64yr old rocker and you guys really need to expand your libraries to some more modern music and enjoy some fantastic production and range not often found in older music:

  • Rufus du Sol (Mind blowing range and bottom end/vocals)
  • Thievery Corporation
  • Massive Attack
  • Lana Del Ray
  • Zero 7
  • Beats Antique 
  • Diana Krall

Marvin Gaye - What's going on

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Steely Dan - Aja

Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsy

John Coltrane - Giant Steps

Aretha Franklin - I never loved a man

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II

Stevie Wonder - Songs in the key of life

Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

Traffic - The low spark of high heel boys

Lots are already mentioned. I'd give a bump to Little Feat, Waiting For Columbus. 

I didn't see:

Radiohead, Kid A

Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

XTC, Nonesuch

Jethro Tull, Thick As A Brick

* A Charlie Brown Christmas - Vince Guaraldi Trio

* several of the rock/folk/blues from mid-60s to mid-70s already mentioned

Great thread with all the usual suspects.

Sticking with AOR.

Steely Dan "Gaucho" and "Katy Lied"

Supertramp "Breakfast in America"

Thr Band "Rock of Ages"

Peter Frampton "Frampton Comes Alive...only kidding.

From the 1980's.

Love & Rockets "Seventh Dream of a Teenage Heaven"

This Mortal Coil "Filigree & Shadow"

 Cocteau Twins "Treasure"

Throwing Muses Their debut album.

 

1990's

Not an expert but love this one.

Oasis "Definitely Maybe"

 

2000's

Mark Mulcahy "In Pursuit of Your Happiness"

 

2020's The Avalanches "We Will Always Love You"

 

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Steely Dan "Can't Buy A Thrill" (almost every one of their albums)

Bob Marley "Live" (Rainbow Theatre), "Catch A Fire", "Uprising", "Legend"

Grateful Dead May '77 (any of the 4 shows in the box set)

Lynyrd Skynyrd "Pronounced", "Second Helping"

Beatles (almost every single album)

Rolling Stones "Let It Bleed", "Beggars Banquet", "Exile on Main St", "Sticky Fingers", "Get Yer Ya Ya's Out"


The Band "The Band", "Stage Fright", "Music From Big Pink"

Yes "The Yes Album", "Close to the Edge", "Fragile", "Yesterdays"

Sly & the Family Stone "Greatest Hits"

Grateful Dead "Workingmans Dead", "American Beauty", "Europe 72", "Skull & Roses"

Doors "Morrison Hotel", "LA Woman", "Waiting for the Sun"

The Who "Tommy", "Who's Next"

Peter Tosh "Equal Rights"

Jimmy Cliff "The Harder They Come" (albeit with many different artists)

Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon", "Wish You Were Here"

Neil Young "After the Gold Rush", "Harvest", "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere"

Genesis "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway", "Selling England by the Pound", "A Trick of the Tail"

Talking Heads "Fear of Music", Remain in Light", "Speaking in Tongues"

Black Crowes "The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion"

Led Zeppelin "I", "II", "III", "IV", "Houses of the Holy"

Jethro Tull "Stand Up", "Benefit", "Living in the Past", "Aqualung"

Mountain "The Best of Mountain"

Allman Brothers "Eat a Peach", "Live at the Fillmore East", "Brothers and Sisters"

New Riders of the Purple Sage "NRPS"

Marshall Tucker Band First self-titled album and "A New Life"

The Clash "London Calling"

CSNY self-titled first album, "Deja Vu"

Kinks "Lola vs the Powerman and the Moneygoround"

Bob Weir "Ace"

Traffic "John Barleycorn Must Die"

Blind Faith

Moody Blues "To Our Children's Children's Children"

Cat Stevens "Tea for the Tillerman", "Teaser and the Firecat"

OK I'm done for now...
 

Only 46 million to go. Meanwhile I'll add a few more

  • Uriah Heep.     .... Demons and Wizards
  • Eagles.     .... Desperado , Hotel California,. One of these Nights,  On the Border
  • Crack the Sky.     ... Live Sky,. ST (first, White Music
  • Keb Mo.    .... Just Like You,.  Slow Down
  • Rush.     ... 1st

 

 

Yes - Close To The Edge

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Led Zeppelin II

Rickie Lee Jones - S/T

Joni Mitchell - Blue

Steely Dan - Aja

Beatles - Abbey Road

Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin'

Dexter Gordon - Go!

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Coltrane - Blue Train

Oscar Peterson - Night Train

Bill Evan - Waltz For Debbie, Sunday at the Village Vanguard

Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

Little Feat - Waiting For Columbus

Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent, & The E Street Shuffle

Supertramp - Crime of the Century

This could take all day. Cheers,

Spencer

I particularly agree with:

Bruce Springsteen- Born To Run

Graham Parker- Squeezing Out Sparks

Steely Dan- Aja

In pop music, there are remarkably few.

Blood on the Tracks for sure.

Love, Forever Changes.

Fleetwood Mac, NOT Rumours but the infinitely better 1975 eponymous album.

Ramsey Lewis Trio, Pot Luck.

After the Gold Rush.

 

 

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions of the Emerald Beyond

Stanley Clarke 1st Album

Steve Wilson - Grace for Drowning, Insurgentes

Jeff Buckley - Grace

 

 

 

SimpleMinds - New Gold Dream

The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow

Led Zeppelin - II

Dylan LeBlanc - Renegade

Doves - The Universal Want

Abecedarians - Eureka

The Chameleons - Script Of The Bridge

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

Luna - Pup Tent

XTC - English Settlement

Stereolab -Dots and Loops

Rubber Soul (US Atco version)

The 1st Paul Butterfield Blues Band album

Junior Wells’ Hoodoo Man Blues

Mississippi John Hurt Today!

Axis: Bold As Love

Gasoline Alley

Moondance

Workingman’s & American Beauty

Blue

Alone Together

Low Spark

Inner Mounting Flame

Remain In Light

The Cars

Paradise And Lunch

The Who By Numbers

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Since you guys have covered great start-to-finish records of the 60's and 70's pretty well, here's a few great ones from the last 25-30 years that I've fallen in love with:

The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely

Nirvana - Unplugged

Chris Stapleton - Traveller

Low Cut Connie - Private Lives

Gary Clark, Jr. - Blak and Blu

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Mojo

Metallica - Hardwired to Self-Destruct (the first disc, anyway)

The Dream Syndicate - How Did I Find Myself Here?

The Silver Jews - American Water

Jamey Johnson - Guitar Song

I agree that there are many great albums start to finish, but glad fuzztone included Al Jarreau. 

Elvis Golden Records Volume 1 thru 4.

Each one is a superb standalone album and each one interestingly distinct from the others.

Kokua Festival with jack Johnson and friends.  Live recorded album, great SQ and songs. Featuring: Dave Mathews, Tim Reynolds, willie Nelson, Taj Mahal, Eddie vedder, Jackson Browne, John Cruz, and more..  one of the best recorded Live albums that can be played top to bottom. Spacious sounding, like you’re there.. 

Springsteen- Born to Run

Everly Brothers- A date with the EB. (Huge influence on emerging band of the 60s and its all on this LP)
 

Van Morrison/ Moondance

The Doors

Thelonious Monk- Monks Music

F. Mac- Rumors

Beatles/ Sgt. Peppers

Eydie Gorme y Los Trio Los Panchos- Sabor a Mi

Chicago- Greatest Hits 

Miles Davis- Greates Hits

Stevie Wonder- Innervisions

Mozart- Eine K N Music, Budapest Quartet

A Clockwork Orange- (Beethoven and Rossini!)

 

Al Stewart "Year of the Cat"

Ben Webster meets Oscar Peterson

Fleetwood Mac self-titled

Muddy Waters "Folk Singer"

Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon"

Led Zep first six records

Ricki Lee Jones first record

 

Some other that comes to mind

Little Feat - Columbus

Guy Clark - Keepers

Rickie Lee Jones - S/T

David Bowie - Aladdin Sane

David Bowie - Blackstar

Mary Black - Shine

Frank Sinatra - At The Sands

Yes, there is a lot of good music made today but they don’t make albums like these anymore.

1. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - The Original Lost Elektra Sessions

2. Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night

3.Styx - Paradise Theater

4. Lee Ritenour - Six String Theory

 

@davidrolon 

Agree about McLaughlin. Have you listened to Miles Davis The Complete Jack Johnson sessions? McLaughlin kills. Definitely worth purchasing. 

At the end of one jam, you can hear Miles say "John, that's some raunchy sh*t".

My favorite M.O. song though is Open Country Joy from Birds of Fire. That album is killer as well. 

Elvis Costello - This Year's Model

Kraftwerk - The Man Machine

Al Stewart - Between the Wars

The Tony Bennett and Bill Evans Album

Emily Remler - East to Wes

Jim Hall - Circles

Rush - Permanent Waves

Traveling Wilburys - Vol. 1

AC/DC - Back In Black 

Queen - The Works 

U2 - Achtung Baby 

Tom Pretty - Full Moon Fever 

Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run 

Extreme - III Sides To Every Story 

Oasis - Definitely Maybe 

Eric Clapton & B.B. King - Riding With The King 

Pearl. Jam - Ten 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Introducing the hardline- Terence Trent D'Arcy

This is my truth, tell me yours - Manic Street Preachers 

Electric Light Orcherstra - Disvovery

Electric Light Orcherstra - Time

Electric Light Orcherstra - Out of the Blue

Slade - Slayed

Jethro Tull - Crest of a Knave

 

Wilco - Yankee hotel foxtrot

David bowie - hunky dory

The Hold Steady - boys and girls in america

 Also agree with some of the ones above but wanted to add some novel titles

Some newer releases
Steve Conte / Bronx Cheer
Elizabeth Cook / Aftermath

Puscifer - Existential Reckoning, Conditions of my parole

TOOL - 10,000 Days

Massive Attack - Mezzanine

These are the threads I most enjoy. I have ordered 5 new albums already. Thanks to all for sharing.

After 6 decades I have found that looking for new music is half the fun.

London Grammar / Truth is a Beautiful Thing

Supertramp / Crime of the Century

Nothing but Thieves / Broken Machine

Oysterhead / Grand Pecking Order

Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation / Mighty Rearranger